The changes in the French Higher Command which have long
been talked of have taken effect. General Joffre has handed over to General Nivelle the Commandership-in-Chief of the Northern and North-Eastern Armies. General Jeffre becomes " Technical Adviser" to the Government. As General Nivelle said, the " glorious victor of the Marne" has been promoted to a post hitherto unprovided for in the military hierarchy. General Nivelle is of course the designer of the incomparable plan of attack which inflicted on the Germans the latest and most humiliating of their defeats before Verdun. The new Minister for War, General Lyautey, is famous for his administration of Morocco, where his combination of sympathy and firmness produced remarkable results. The Germans intrigued in vain to ,stir up the tribesmen, and when war was declared General Lyautey was able to send the bulk of his colonial troops from Morocco to the front.
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